HELP URGENTLY REQUIRED!!!
For the 1st time in about 4 years i have my entire CD collection (about 700ish) immediediately to hand.
This presents me with a big ol' quandry.
I have no idea what to listen to cos of too much choice and don't want to just start at the beginning and work through to the end. I have stuff to do so can't risk anything too mad but I keep reaching for the ACDC, Butthole Surfers, Flaming Lips and such. At present we are about halfway through Kate Bush's "The Red Shoes" and I need inspiration.
Any suggestions?
Apart from MTFU or Fuck Off or suchlike.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 21 Feb 2010, 13:13, 16 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hrm
I've been listening to Belle and Sebastian Boy with the arab strap album, some Dresden Dolls and some Bang Bangs mostly today. Put me in a good mood.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 13:41, Reply)

I find
theres always time for some Wildhearts.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 14:26, Reply)

If you've got it
Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle is always good for a quick blast.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 15:34, Reply)

I'm on "I'm Your Fan: The songs of Leonard Cohen"
After an hour or so of open windows and birdsong ;-)
First day of spring I tells ya!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 21 Feb 2010, 15:56, Reply)

that is a great album
thirteenth step or whatever it is called is also great.

not quite as good as tool though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Thirteenth Step does have my fave APC song of all time on it
That being The Noose.

Will agree with you that Tool are better than APC.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 23:04, Reply)

Try throwing them all up in the air and playing the first one to land in your CD-player's slot.
If multiple CDs land in the slot - instant mash-up.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 18:32, Reply)

Aaaaah, the "scattergun" approach!
Involves too much entropy for my liking, I've spent most of the last 4 years trying to get the house the way I want it. To use your approach, appealing as it is, would be a big step backwards.
I only got round to putting up the shelves yesterday, need to make a point of using them...
Anyway, with the average single CD and case weighing just under 100g that'd make it getting on for 70kg. I'm not throwing that kind of weight around the living room, the mrs would batter me ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:33, Reply)

Perhaps you can try this instead
Perhaps you could plaster part of the ceiling with an adhesive that gradually releases the CDs over time, and construct something to catch the falling CDs and send them off to the CD player. Once the CD player has finished, it could use it's powerful eject-mechanism to shoot the CD back onto the ceiling. If a CD falls before the current CD finishes playing, the CD player will eject the CD in time to receive the newly-landed CD.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:52, Reply)

i once organised my cd collection, not by alphabet or genre
but by the colour of the spine, into a roughly rainbow progression, with black and white bars at the end
It was a complete cunt if i wanted to find anything specific, but it was good to just pick a green or blue cd and see what i got
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:06, Reply)

I like this.
*gives blousey seal of approval*
( girlinthehole, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:20, Reply)

Alternatively
Arrange them in a 2D rainbow progression with the hue going from left to right and the saturation (grey-ness of the colour) or brightness/lightness going from top to bottom. Or if you could somehow arrange them in a 3D fashion, the saturation could go from top to bottom and the brightness/lightness from front to back.

Are you a synaesthete by any chance?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:27, Reply)

Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of...

Been in an utterly depressing mood all weekend and this has actually managed to put a smile on my face. Acemans.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:40, Reply)

I think you should play
Susan Boyle. You know you have it.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sun 21 Feb 2010, 19:50, Reply)

I, but, er...
Can I borrow your copy?
Ahaaa!
Gotcha back!
How's tricks in sunny Kaliphorniyay?
Read yer QOTW post, hug?
X
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 21 Feb 2010, 22:34, Reply)

I have a very bad back and a cold
and got no sleep last night and am grumpy and weepy today.
However, I have awesome pain pills, kleenex, alcohol and am making lobster ravioli for dinner. So WIN!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 22 Feb 2010, 1:04, Reply)